Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Somalia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Yemen
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Evening Good
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Fadlan
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
caraysiiyo
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Olonets
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Olonets
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
af Soomaali
Русский
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Russki
German Name
Somali
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Russians
Origin
19th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Somali
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
soma1255
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Somali and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Somali and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Somali and Russian language. Somali word for "Hello" is Hello or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Somali Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Somali vs Russian Difficulty
The Somali vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Somali Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Somali and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Somali and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Somali is 52 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.
